This week, bargaining teams from Brandon University and the BU Faculty Association reached a tentative agreement for a renewed Collective Agreement. This is wonderful news and our thanks go to the members of both bargaining teams, who have worked so hard to arrive at this milestone.
A Brandon University researcher known for his work on restoring peatlands is part of a team that has secured $1,466,449 in federal funding to look at polluted peatlands in northern Ontario.
Dr. Pete Whittington, Associate Professor of Geography & Environment at BU, joins Dr. Colin McCarter, Assistant Professor at Nipissing University and Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change, who was awarded an Alliance Missions Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada announced this month.
It’s a homecoming of sorts for Brandon University’s new Dean of Arts, who is returning to Manitoba after nearly 25 years away.
Dr. Gregory Kennedy is a specialist of early Canadian history, particularly the history of New France, Acadia, and the larger French Atlantic World.
Less than two weeks away, anticipation is beginning to crescendo for the Brandon University Jazz Festival, which features an artist who took home a Grammy just last month.
The annual musical event brings students, music educators, vaunted performers, and jazz lovers together for three days of excitement at the BU campus.
Ongoing severe weather conditions and extensive road closures means that Brandon University’s main campus in Brandon will be closed today (Monday, March 4) and CLASSES ARE CANCELLED.
Most offices and campus services will be closed, and unavailable.
Tonight, Brandon University and the BU Faculty Association made major inroads towards a new collective agreement. The Parties will continue negotiations through the days ahead, and there will be no labour disruption to our campus community and to the great work that our students, faculty, and staff do on a daily basis.
UPDATE: Posted jointly on behalf of lead negotiators Lisa Robson (BUFA) and Kristen Fisher (BU)
The below communication was misleading; a strike is not guaranteed. While the Faculty Association’s strike deadline remains, at this time Brandon University and the BU Faculty Association are very much still at the table and working hard to reach an agreement.
From left: Sunday Franji (First Black Councillor in Brandon), Dr. Aloy Anyichie (Founder, Loy Excellentia Initiative), Jeff Fawcett (Mayor of Brandon), and Councillor Jason Splett during the event.
On Saturday February 24, 2024, the Loy Excellentia Initiative organized an event for all African/Black students at Brandon University (BU) and Assiniboine Community College (ACC) to mark the Black History Month in Canada,
Loy Excellentia Initiative is founded by a Nigerian-Canadian professor in the Faculty of Education at BU, Dr. Aloy Anyichie.
Regretfully, Brandon University is halting efforts to transition our in-house student information system to the Anthology package, part of a project known as RenewBU. We are not finding a route to successfully implement the full Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software project according to the goals we had set and this will end our relationship with Anthology.
It still has that new piano smell.
“Jack” is the name of a brand-new nine-foot Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano that will make its debut March 2 on the stage of the Lorne Watson Recital Hall at Brandon University.